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Pennsylvania College of Technology's Students in Free Enterprise team was chosen as a first runner-up in its division at the recent 2003 SIFE Regional Competition and Career Opportunity Fair in Reston, Va. SIFE encourages students to apply what they learn in the classroom to real-life situations and to better their communities through education-outreach projects.

Not long ago, working as an office secretary probably meant taking shorthand, operating a Dictaphone machine, tapping typewriter keys and maybe even fetching coffee or dry-cleaning for the boss.

"A Gathering of the Arts," the Pennsylvania College of Technology Library's Fourth Annual Poetry Reading, will be presented Tuesday, May 6, at the College. The program will include music, original poetry and a graphic-arts display performed and presented by Penn College students, staff and faculty. The "Gathering" will be held from 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Lisette N. Ormsbee has been named the new director of the Pennsylvania College of Technology Library. Dr. Davie Jane Gilmour, College president, appointed her to the position following a two-part nationwide search. Ormsbee who comes to the position with more than 25 years of public-service experience will report to Dr. Henryk Marcinkiewicz, associate vice president for academic affairs.

A team of student competitors from the School of Natural Resources Management at Pennsylvania College of Technology placed third overall in the Mid-Atlantic Woodsman Meet held recently in Cumberland, Md.

A team of six Construction Management students from Pennsylvania College of Technology placed fourth recently in the Associated Schools of Construction-Associated General Contractors of America National Student Competition in Dallas.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: A rainy weather forecast prompted cancellation of the McCall Middle School's planned April 22 visit.) Three hundred fifth-graders from two area school districts will explore a natural laboratory, tour the "Pennsylvania WoodMobile," meet "William Penn" and visit a sawmill when they celebrate Earth Week at Pennsylvania College of Technology's Schneebeli Earth Science Center on April

Senior students in the Legal Assistant/Paralegal Studies bachelor-degree major at Pennsylvania College of Technology will celebrate National Law Day (May 1) by hosting a series of legal talks April 17 through May 8. The 10 oral presentations, which will address current trends and fascinating topics in the law, are free and open to the public.

"Culture of Brazilian and Arabic Cuisine," a program offered by two international students at Pennsylvania College of Technology, will be presented Tuesday, April 22, at the College Library. Culinary Arts Technology student Luiz E. Ferri and Paramedic Technology student Noor Al Mubarak will present cuisine from their native countries and share food-related cultural traditions.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's public television cooking series, "You're the Chef," is no longer a national show. It's an international series, thanks to recent distribution in Japan. The Emmy-nominated and Telly Award-winning series is airing throughout Japan via an educational satellite station.